Foliage
עֳפִיStrong’s H6074ophi (o-phi)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ophi is the Aramaic word usually translated “foliage its”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.”
Meaning
- Leafage, foliage
How it's translated
- foliage its 2
- and foliage its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 3
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 4:14In contextHe cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:
- Daniel 4:21In contextWhose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation:
Aramaic dictionary
עֳפִי ophi · foliage
leafage, foliage Aramaic of o.phe (עֳפָיִם "branch" H6073)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “foliage” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FO'LIAGE, noun
[Latin folium, a leaf. See Foil.]
- Leaves in general; as a tree of beautiful foliage
- A cluster of leaves, flowers and branches; particularly, the representation of leaves, flowers and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc.
All definitions and other forms of “foliage”
FO'LIAGE, verb transitive
To work or to form into the representation of leaves.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.